Gmail priority inbox is an email PA
August 31, 2010: 4:18 AM ETNew service from Google automagically sorts your email from most important to least important.
When I get to work, I usually have about 20-50 emails waiting for me. It would be nice if I didn't have to sort through all of them to find the one or two important ones that need immediate attention or from people I care about. This is where Google's new Priority Inbox comes in.
I haven't used it yet so I can't vouch for how accurate it is. But I can't help but think that the technology that Google uses to determine how worthy someone's email is could also be used in a social network application, if there is even a difference from Gmail at this point.
If it hasn't yet been enabled in your inbox, this is what the configuration screen looks like:
